{"id":18417,"date":"2013-04-22T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=18417"},"modified":"2013-04-21T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:23:38","slug":"the-birthday-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/04\/22\/the-birthday-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birthday Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I have studied the entrails of this pelican correctly, and if scholars are correct in that the Seal of Baal-Ashtoreth has finally split in twain, that means it is my birthday. I am, by all reports, &#8220;no longer young,&#8221; but also, &#8220;not quite old,&#8221; which means I&#8217;m &#8220;middle-aged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll buy my sports car next year.<\/p>\n<p>For this year, I&#8217;ll buy myself a book.<\/p>\n<p>Because books and birthdays go together like chocolate and more chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>So: recommend to me a book you liked that you read recently.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not recommend your own books because this is not that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have studied the entrails of this pelican correctly, and if scholars are correct in that the Seal of Baal-Ashtoreth has finally split in twain, that means it is my birthday. I am, by all reports, &#8220;no longer young,&#8221; but also, &#8220;not quite old,&#8221; which means I&#8217;m &#8220;middle-aged.&#8221; I&#8217;ll buy my sports car next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18421,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417\/revisions\/18421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}